Time Machines by Richard Taws (.ePUB)
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Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France (The MIT Press) by Richard Taws
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A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
In Time Machines Richard Taws examines the relationship between art and telegraphy in the decades following the French Revolution. The optical telegraph was a novel form of visual communication developed in the 1790s that remained in use until the mid-1850s. This pre-electric telegraph, based on a semaphore code, irrevocably changed the media landscape of nineteenth-century France. Although now largely forgotten, in its day it covered vast distances and changed the way people thought about time. It also shaped, and was shaped by, a proliferating world of images. What happens, Taws asks, if we think about art telegraphically?
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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